Sentences with phrase «of skin grafts»

The vamping body and magazine cutout eyes and lips imply glamour, yet swirls of ink create the impression of skin grafts.

Dan has finished all of his skin grafts at Capital Veterinary Specialists and is being fitted for his prosthetic leg.

The use of skin grafts in cats usually lead to an excellent result.

Immediate applications for the oxygen - sensing bandage include monitoring patients with a risk of developing ischemic (restricted blood supply) conditions, postoperative monitoring of skin grafts or flaps, and burn - depth determination as a guide for surgical debridement — the removal of dead or damaged tissue from the body.

The scientists observed that the rejection of the skin graft in mice that received THC was delayed when compared to the control group that only received a placebo.

And since staples are generally used just around the edges of a skin graft, the graft doesn't always stay flush with the body as it stretches and bends, and can fail if fluid collects between the body and the graft.

Even the bloodiest scene in the movie, involving the use of a skin grafting machine for torture, goes by too quickly.

Illuminated in bright light and marking the centre of her right cheek are the tracks of scars, remnants of a skin graft or cosmetic surgery.

Not exact matches

A second question might be the following: Will the new group of reconciled persons in each place be a kind of «skin graft» growing over old divisions, or will it be simply an interim, experimental organization for developing and enhancing new relationships among still separated bodies?

I sometimes think of these religio - civic enclaves as skin grafts which doctors working in burn units hope will «take» and grow.

As theologians and pastors we need to press toward formulating and articulating the ideas needed for the support of practical tasks: in this case the task of providing skin - grafts of civility for ravaged human societies.

What might be involved if religious communities were to cooperate with others of good will to broker enclaves of spiritual civility, dialogical skin grafts in our ravaged neighborhoods of hate speech, misunderstanding and mistrust, provisional gatherings of our many persuasion, that could model a search for the good in common?

A woman who punished a 9 year old boy by making him sit in a bathtub while she poured boiling water on him, to the point where he will require physical therapy and skin grafts and a host of reconstructive surgery, also making the boy clean the kitchen after she burned him.

«That's where they got the skin to graft onto the left side of my face.

Because the wound kept getting re-infected the surgeons nearly had to amputate his foot completely but saved it by removing 8 centimetres of his tendon and grafted a patch of skin from his arm to cover the scars.

The next two months involved a half - dozen surgeries to remove dead skin and debris from the jagged wound where his leg had been severed, four inches below the knee; to take skin from his thigh for skin grafts; to build up the sound flesh around the ends of his bones and then stretch it for a strong, tight seal over the stump.

The skin grafts took a long time to heal, delaying the fitting of his first prosthesis until Aug. 1.

Wenger has admitted Cazorla's injury is the worst he has ever known, with the player's foot requiring a series of operations, as well as a skin graft from his arm.

Skin grafts of such transgenic mice were rejected by normal C57BL / 10 mice, suggesting that the foreign SLA antigen expressed in the transgenic mice is recognized as a functional transplantation antigen.

The new technology, which Litt's team did not develop, was used to harvest only the top layer of skin for much smaller, consistently sized donor grafts.

However, split - thickness grafting must be performed in an operating room and the technique is limited by the availability of donor skin.

The grafts that best approximate the look and feel of a face are «full - thickness» grafts, which involve harvesting the outer (epidermal) layer of skin along with the underlying (dermal) layers from elsewhere on the body.

The boy received grafts of sheets of genetically - altered skin grown in the lab

«Surgeons use a variety of techniques to grow skin for tissue expansion procedures designed to grow skin in one region of the body so that it can be auto - grafted on to another site [sometimes used for burn victims],» said Guy German, assistant professor of biomedical engineering within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.

After a few days, the cultured papillae were transplanted between the dermis and epidermis of human skin that had been grafted onto the backs of mice.

For example: Why can a surgeon successfully graft skin or other tissue from one part of the body to another but not from one individual to another, except in the case of grafts between identical twins?

When grafted onto bald mice, the cells produced not only furry tufts but stretches of skin complete with the oil - producing glands that help keep it supple as well.

Currently, grafts are either sheets of skin taken from a donor site on the body, or layers of cells cultured in vitro from the patient.

Grafting skin to cover burn wounds is also important for preventing infections, which can be a source of complications.

Hina had developed the devastating immune reaction known as graft - versus - host disease, in which donor cells attack the walls of the gut, skin, lungs, liver, and sometimes — though rarely — even the patient's brain.

Before and three months after fat grafting, samples of skin from the treated area were obtained for in - depth examination, including electron microscopy for ultrastructural - level detail.

The treatment — a whole - body graft of genetically modified stem cells — is the most ambitious attempt yet to treat a severe form of epidermolysis bullosa (EB), an often - fatal group of conditions that cause skin to blister and tear off at the slightest touch.

Two approaches to fat grafting — injection of fat cells versus fat - derived stem cells — have similar effects in reversing the cellular - level signs of aging skin, reports a study in the April issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

In fact, the new approach is similar to an established treatment for severe burns, in which sheets of healthy skin are grown from a patient's own cells and grafted over wounds.

Dr. Rigotti comments, «In any case, this is the first study presenting clinical evidence showing skin rejuvenation after fat grafting and highlighting the anatomical and structural changes that are the basis of this rejuvenation.»

The visible parts of his body were replete with fresh skin grafts, giving him an uneven, patched - together appearance.

«Inflammation is important in an injury because it helps to kill off bugs and prevent infection, but during a skin graft inflammation is a problem and can cause rejection of the new skin,» explains Dr Haycock.

None of the eight children in the study required skin grafts, and the constructs healed normally with no stitching, gluing, or stapling.

Additionally, it is possible to take small pieces of the patient's skin, expand these in the laboratory and then graft them back onto the patient as very thin sheets of cells.

When there is insufficient of the patient's own skin to graft all the burned areas rapidly, the surgeons have to wait for these areas to heal and then take another skin graft from them.

She remembers seeing the horrific burns on her hands and arms, and later, the neat row of stitches on her thigh where surgeons had taken skin grafts to repair her hands.

As a first step, they have created a novel animal model that replicates the response of human skin to severe burns, skin grafts and laser therapy.

«Ultimately, I hope to prove that the use of lasers along with early skin grafts can dramatically reduce the development of contractures and the need for additional surgeries,» said Dr. Bailey.

This technology has been developed from a skin explant model for predicting a potentially serious complication of bone marrow transplantation, «graft versus host» disease — a common complication following the transplant.

For example, he says, researchers studying infertility have grafted human testis and ovary cells under the skin of animals in an effort to better understand their development.

The team conducted investigations by grafting low - metastatic (LM) and high - metastatic (HM) melanoma tumour cells under the skin of mice.

Jones, associate professor of clinical surgery and director of the Burn Center at the medical center, led the two larger skin graft surgeries.

The Ohio State University doctors and their teams have partnered to perform two skin graft procedures on the American Paint Horse named Northstar, who suffered severe burns to almost half of his body when the abuse occurred.

At this stage of the horse's recovery, more than half of the initial wound is healed, with the repair resulting from both the various skin grafting procedures and normal closure along the edges of the damaged skin.

The team then ran the graft through a mesher that cut holes in the graft skin and allowed for expansion of the graft to about four times its original size.